IMAF 2023 - Alexandra Holownia - "GAME"
About IMAF festival:
International Multimedial Art Festival – IMAF is an annual event dedicated to performance art. International Festival of Multimedial Arts – IMAF has created a context in which different artists of various nationalities and age come together and, through their individual work, create a variety of research and suggestions on the medium of body and performance. As such, IMAF is not merely a festival, but a place where new ideas and conditions of performance, in the broader sense of art, become evolutionarily classified and researched. This makes it progressive and proactive, a space focused solely on developing new thoughts and ideas.
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About artist:
Alexandra Holownia, born in Poland, live and work in Berlin/Germany. Graduated in interior design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. Completed post-graduate studies at the stage and costume design department at Józef Szajna's Scenery Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Also completed her second postgraduate studies in art in context at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. Alexandra Holownia deals with artistic performance, sculpture, video art and drawing. She created Alexandra Fly - global artistic figure, based on breaking taboos and guerrilla actions in public spaces. She is the author of the unique method of artistic performances based on playing her own costumes that are also sculptures. Her feminstic works call for socio-political tolerance, acceptance of women rights and freedom of sexual self-determination.
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About performance:
Fascination with threads and strings perceived as the basic organic element of our planet, as the greatest mystery of our environment. Also, research on the photograph of tied girls BY Nobuyoshi Araki influenced the creation of the play The Game. It's about fantasies. A woman plays with bondage, with a whip. He likes to eat bananas and carrots.
Music: Anne Germanique
Camera: Waldemar Kremser
Costumes: Alexandra Holownia
Play: Alexandra Holownia
Idea: Alexandra Holowni